My rigs.

ALXAndy

ALXAndy

ALXAndy

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My rigs. Now feat X8, a 8 core Hackintosh. Feat White Lightning.

Hey all. Figured it was time I would put up some pics of my rigs.

First up, Peewee. Peewee is a Kabini 5350 with a GTX 480 Lightning shoved up its back passage.





It's my media rig. Specs.

AMD Kabini 5350
MSI AM1i motherboard
4gb 2333mhz Geil Extreme memory
GTX 480 Lightning with LED mod
XFX non modular 750w Pro edition (Seasonic)
16gb SSD (booting Win 7 pro X86)
320gb storage.

Nothing too exciting, gets the job done. Runs The Sims 3 and FIFA 13 for when my step daughter is staying, does a good job with movies.

My second rig is The Dark Carnival. It's my all AMD rig.





Specs.

AMD FX 8320 @ 4.9ghz 1.45v
Asus Crosshair V Formula Z
AMD Radeon 7990
8gb Mushkin Blackline (Frostbyte)
Bitfenix Colossus case
Front VFD screen running temps/ram usage etc
Front Enermax Vegas 180mm intake
Floating fans
Corsair RM750 PSU
Custom back plates on 7990, Revodrive and Killer NIC (carbon)
Full PSU housing
Red LED Mod
Corsair H100 modded
Custom power, reset and directbios buttons
Cougar Vortex fans on H100
Xilence Redwings throughout.
Bitfenix Alchemy braids and custom braids.
OCZ Revodrive 128gb
6x500gb Baracuda
Custom covers.
Etched custom window.

ETC. This PC is about to be changed for an 8 core 16 thread Ivy Xeon and Gigabyte X79 UD3.

OK, so now it's onto the brawn. This is my Big Purple Monster (fnarrr) or "BPM".







Specs.

Cooler Master Cosmos 2 case
Intel 3970x Extreme edition 6 core 12 thread CPU @ 4.8ghz 1.37v.
MSI Big Bang Xpower 2 motherboard
16gb Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866mhz
Corsair H110 silver anti kink coils
Corsair AF 140 + 120 throughout, purple LED
Nvidia GTX Titan Black SLI
EVGA 1000G power supply
EVGA SLI bridge
Four Corsair Nova 2 series SSD (60gb) running RAID 0.
Intel 320 series 80gb SSD for boot
Purple and black braids.

Asst pics. Here is my RAID 0 SSDs.





I got them for £10 each. Bargain :)

Here is the front mod on the monster..



And the GPU fan mod.



I'm far from finished ;)

VRM fan mod.



More to come soon. The Dark Carnival is about to get one of these..



And one of these.

 
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SSDs came from an auction site. There are none left, wish I'd bought more now.

The Kabini has been great. Not benched it because I have to install SP 1 in Win 7 and the SSD doesn't have enough room but it passed the gaming test with flying colours last week when my step daughter was here. She spent the week playing Sims 3 and FIFA 13 so it's more than up to light gaming.

May bench it soon, just mad busy atm but yeah, I reckon they;re OK.
 
BPM update..

I pressed on a little bit and now I have finished the GPU fan box. First up I wanted to make some graphics, so I found this pic.



It carries on the theme from the front. Any way, after about 40 minutes here's what I gots.



TBH? that made me less sad about the phone idea. That area is now finished, and I really like how it came out. Here is a shot of the rig, I also found my camera so I was happy about that too :)



Backplate time. Mark.



Cut.



Sand.



Peel.



Dinoc.



Cover.



Graphics.



One.



Two..



And fit.





Total cost about £9 the pair.
 
OK so been a busy boy.

1. Made an IO cover.

2. Made a PSU cover panel.

3. Removed all 5.25" junk, ready for the cover panel.

4. Modded the EVGA SLI bridge.

5. Flashed both Titan Bs to EVGA signatures.

Pics.



IO cover.



SLI bridge.

 
OK time to take care of the HDD box. I don't like it stock, so decided to mod it. First up I removed it.



Then cut out the middle parts and then carved the edges



Wrap.



Better.



And then....

 
So to my (pleasant) surprise the postman came with another sheet of acrylic for me :) It came pretty quick this time.. So this time around I figured I'd do the graphics first.



And assembling.



And then mask.



Then off to work...



Drill a hole and set the donut cutter.



And cut.



And then cut the cover panel I need.



Once that was done I covered the panel.



Applied the graphic.



And that's now done.



And fitted.



OK, so then it was time to cover the pump cover. Light had gone in now mind..



And design and print my graphic for it.



Self explanatory.



And about ten minutes later.



And fit.



Next up. Custom floor cover and SSD display. Don't have the acrylic or vinyl yet, so that will be coming next week :)
 
I love BPM :D

Ok I'm not sure exactly how you are doing the black onto the vinyl wrap. You print the image onto some sort of adhesive paper then cut around it and stick on, correct??
Can you tell me what you are printing onto, ie manufacturer name.

Next question, how did you colour your Sli bridge? I tried to colour mine using yellow jel but it looked rubbish. Your purple looks really good so how did you do it?

I was considering purple for a future build and I see you've used the Corsair purple fans. How it the colour in the flesh? Nice and vibrant?

Great work anyway, thanks for any response to my queries in advance :D
 
colinmcr said:
I love BPM :D

Ok I'm not sure exactly how you are doing the black onto the vinyl wrap. You print the image onto some sort of adhesive paper then cut around it and stick on, correct??
Can you tell me what you are printing onto, ie manufacturer name.

Next question, how did you colour your Sli bridge? I tried to colour mine using yellow jel but it looked rubbish. Your purple looks really good so how did you do it?

I was considering purple for a future build and I see you've used the Corsair purple fans. How it the colour in the flesh? Nice and vibrant?

Great work anyway, thanks for any response to my queries in advance :D
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Hi Colin.

I am printing onto basic white paper. When I print I design my graphic, then sit two side by side and flip one of them horizontally. The flipped one gets cut out, then I use a Prit Stick to fix it to the back of the vinyl and cut from there.

I usually give it about a minute for the prit stick to dry underneath, or it can snag the blade and get a bit sticky. I use a combination of scalpels and scissors to cut with. I may do a guide later :)

The SLI bridge was done using nothing but a purple sharpie. I took it apart and then coloured the back side of the clear acrylic with the sharpie. Then I let it dry (takes about ten mins) then gave it another coat, then one more (so three in total).
 
KiiYzOo said:
I'm liking the acrylic work :) how did you attach the backplates?
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double sided 3M foam. I just cut small pieces and place them on top of the screw heads, then put the plate on.

They're not attached strongly so they're easy to get off. I'm not about to turn the rig upside down any time soon so they're strong enough :)

Two plates covered cost me around £9 for both.

jimbaw said:
very nice!!!
I'd love to make a psu shroud for my corsair 750D
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Hi Jimbaw. For the PSU shroud I used 5mm. It's easier to brace and hold together than 3mm.
 
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Awesome, I might make myself a backplate for my 290x but without the dinoc, as I like the look of just the acrylic :)
 
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